Ode to Jesus
Who gives direction to aimless wandering,
answers to curious wondering,
insight to ceaseless pondering.
Ode to Jesus
Who gives comfort to anguished weepers,
rest to weary sleepers,
Who is His brother’s keeper.
Ode to Jesus
Who holds feet to the fire,
proves satan a liar,
and rescues from the mire.
I’m no poet, but what the heck. Happy Valentine’s Day!
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Cupid’s Arrow.”
Light & life 
Nicely done, I enjoyed that.
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Thanks Wally.
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You did just fine as a “non” poet 🙂
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Thanks Linda.
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Oh…no!
You’ve gone “poetic”
I knew this would happen…
a.g.
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Thanks for not laughing at me a.g.Let me rephrase that a.g.: I hope it wasn’t like nails on a chalkboard to your poetic ears, as I feared it might be.
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Have a care where you tread, we poets are a zealous lot with tender sensitive toes:)
a.g.
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beautiful, save odes are usually for the dead!
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Thanks Alan. I didn’t know they were usually reserved for the dead. I thought an ode was merely a poem that expresses strong feelings of love or respect for someone or something. Although I think someone did write an Ode to Death.
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I am here!!!
British Dictionary definitions for ode
noun
1. a lyric poem, typically addressed to a particular subject, with lines of varying lengths and complex rhythms See also Horatian ode, Pindaric ode
2. (formerly) a poem meant to be sung
Word Origin
C16: via French from Late Latin ōda, from Greek ōidē, from aeidein to sing
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Thanks a.g. So perhaps a dirge is an ode to the dead. Here is an ode to joy:
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before thee,
opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
drive the dark of doubt away.
Giver of immortal gladness,
fill us with the light of day!
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🙂
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